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VOL. 6 “Driving is believing!” The great experience of electric vehicles, which only the developers can tell!

“All About Electric Vehicle”, delivering the basic knowledge of electric vehicle, including technical contents through an interview with a developer of electric vehicle. In the latter-half three Volumes, Hiroaki Yoshida, having been long engaged in the research and development work of the “i-MiEV”, tells about the development history of electric vehicles or the secret of the i-MiEV. In 6^th Volume as the final issue, it highlights difficulties toward the introduction of electric vehicles into the market, what you should experience with electric vehicles, and the future of electric vehicles.

(This article is issued on August 2009)

The current electric vehicles are for urban use, replacing the gasoline-powered vehicles premised on a short-distance driving, but in the future the electric vehicles have the potential to change our everyday lifestyle.

In fact, you may also park an electric vehicle inside the entrance of your houses because it emits no exhaust gas. For example, you may use an electric vehicle as another living room for listening to music on car audio system.

Therefore, I think the future electric vehicles will become an entertainment providing space where we can do something while parking, not a simply a transportation device.

So please look forward to electric vehicles evolving from now onward!

Hiroaki Yoshida: General Manager of the EV/Powertrain System Engineering Department, Joined Mitsubishi Motors Corporation in 1978, belonged to the Research Department, engaged in the development work of electronically controlled suspension, four-wheel steering system, anti-skid brake system, and then transferred to the EV development team of Electronics Engineering Department, where involved in the research and development work of electric vehicles, fuel cells, and hybrid vehicles.